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The Distant Hours

author: Morton, Kate
Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mothers and daughters, family secrets [X], world war, 1939-1945, mother-daughter relationship [X], secrecy, domestic fiction

Don't Try To Find Me

author: Brown, Holly
When their daughter Marley goes missing, Rachel and Paul, getting no help from the police, turn to Facebook and Twitter, but when Rachel blows a television interview and shocking secrets come to light, the blogosphere is convinced she is a suspect in Marley's disappearance.
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copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Unbecoming

author: Downham, Jenny
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700

Tell Me Something Real

author: Devlin, Calla
Vanessa, the quiet middle child of a set of three beautiful sisters, is struggling to hold her family together as her mother travels between San Diego and Mexico, receiving treatments for leukemia that are banned in the U.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: sisters, mother-daughter relationship [X], leukemia, mothers and daughters, betrayal, family secrets [X]

Family Game Night And Other Catastrophes

author: Lambert, Mary E.
Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate herself and keep her family's problems secret.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690

Pieces Of Her

author: Slaughter, Karin
What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Little White Lies

author: Barnes, Jennifer
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft accepts her estranged grandmother's six-figure bribe to live with her for a year and to participate in the debutante season and ball, in order to possibly meet the father she has never known.
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copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
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The Center Of The Universe

author: Voros, Ria
When Grace Carter's mother, a celebrity news anchor, suddenly vanishes, Grace's world is turned upside down.
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copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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August Isle

author: Standish, Ali
"For years, Miranda has stared at postcards of August Isle, Florida.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], family secrets [X], friendship, florida

How To Keep A Secret

author: Morgan, Sarah
"Lauren, Jenna, their mother, Nancy, and Lauren's daughter, Mack, are not so close.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], family secrets [X], vacations, martha's vineyard (mass.), domestic fiction

Dreaming Darkly

author: Kittredge, Caitlin
"After her mother's death, Ivy is sent to live on an island with a rich uncle where she experiences nightmares and learns about her family's murderous past"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
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Black Canary

author: Cabot, Meg
Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance is in a rock band with her two best friends and has a good relationship with her mom, but when a mysterious figure threatens her friends and family, she learns more about herself and her mother's secret past.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
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The Nanny

author: Macmillan, Gilly
"When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: nannies, missing persons, mothers and daughters, homecoming, family secrets [X], mother-daughter relationship [X]

Burn Our Bodies Down

author: Power, Rory
"Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], family secrets [X], mothers and daughters, secrets, domestic fiction

Love & Other Detours

author: Welch, Jenna Evans
"[Love & Gelato]: After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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